To compliment this post, here's a quote from a feminist who wants to go back in time and abort her child because he is looking at pornography:

I know, that as soon as my child leaves my home and moves into his own place that he will be looking at porn immediately. I know that I am raising a problem for women. I know that this child will one day grow and will fully absorb the messages that porn sends to men. I know that my child masturbates to degradation of my people (when I use that phrase I mean womyn) and that with every orgasm he will further solidify his own hatred of and superiority over, women. ...I have three boys. One of them is lost to me and as a mother and a radical womyn this breaks my heart in a way I can scarcely express. I don't know if it says something terrible about me, but you know what haunts me late at night? More than anything else? I know, in my heart of hearts that, knowing what I know now, if I had it to do over again I would have had that abortion.

So, what kind of sites do [they] balance? Just curious. I'd accept that explanation if I could see...say, the polar opposite of a feminist site ruined as well.

**note, I do find it amusing that feminist sites (or those that contribute to them) automatically assume that it's a misogynist thing - it always seemed like to me that ruiners or trolls will just use the tactics that get the most rewarding (for them) reaction out of their targets**

Then again, I'd be pissed as hell if somebody hacked my site or whatever - not like it's really that important of a site. I wish I knew more about net security to take measures to protect it...

security is a myth. the only real way to protect yourself is to not make yourself a target. (no, seriously)

I agree with you. It never ceases to amaze me that people actually think that their 10 digit alpha-numerical password that they change every month will never get hacked. Or that their email is completely safe. There's always a way around the system. I just wish I knew more about that;P Then again, I'd like to think that I don't make myself a target...

Which brings me too...for the "internet hate machine" what constitutes a viable target? What makes some hairy feminist board a more appealing target than say...Fox News? (philosophically curious here) Is there a criteria or a scoring board for "Most Potential LULZ"?

Probably the combination of batshit insane Authority Mom, radical feminism, teenage boy who wanks to online porn, and the over the top dramatic tone is what did it. Also then one of the "challengers" wrote about making an airtight hackproof site and boasted about her mad programming skillz, which must have been like a red flag in front of a bull.

I'd say the raids against Hal Turner are a balance to the raids against the feminists. Sure Hal mostly hates the blacks, but I'm sure there is plenty of room in his heart to hate uppity bitch women as well.

I'd love to see some serious trolling done to the Warriors for Innocence and the like. (not related to the recent LJ strike-through dramaz) Online vigilantes for "the children" amuse me. Or better yet, that show that entraps pedos as they seek out hot young teen sluts.

I definitely think someone needs to troll Chris Hanson. Just lurk around teen chat rooms trying to snag one of their 25 year old JB actors, and arrange to meet them, and then show up wearing a shirt with something along the lines of "I was on Dateline's To Catch a Predator and all I got was arrested" written on it.

when you made this comment I lolled for some reason that you weren't aware of.

WFI was me. I did it. they were a bunch of christian moms. I told them about child pornography on the internet. i eventually showed them fanfic on livejournal. it was part of a campaign against denise paolucci, this fat fanfic writing lesbian with a thicker mustache than me who lived in her parents basement and lead the LJ abuse team. it was successful, she was forced to resign and so was six apart's CEO barak berkowitz. it was a little too successful, and they decided to solicit a buyer for LJ and it was sold to russians and now it is covered in ads. oh well.

Well as a matter of fact there ARE a number of so-called "Men's Rights Activists" blogs, and if'n you asked me, those are good eatin', lulz-wise. They're like the mirror image of the nutty radical feminist sites.

But I agree with labrynthos. The DoS shit and the floods of trolls is just lame. At least Fox News could be called powerful. I don't like people like Heart, but she's really small fish as these things go. Not worthy really.

It's people like that who are responsible for me feeling nervous about being female. People who insist on the conflicting dogma of The Evil Male and Sex Is Rape and Women Are A Magical Superior Species But Still Deserve Special Treatment. It makes me nervous because I wonder if people treat me differently when first meeting me out of fear that I'll be one of these psychos.

If these she-creatures wish to impose their own aneristic (and also bullshit) world view on others, I see no issue in diving upon ther nets in a mass erisian fury. Although I do tend to prefer more subtle forms of undermining, I definitely appreciate comedy gold that comes out in the form of statements like: "It’s funny how men will claim forever that pornography is harmless but whenever they want to intimidate or silence women out comes the pornography and the sexual insults." In response: "Sticks and stones may break my bones but porn is fap fap fap."

These are the same types of men who shaved the heads of wymyn at Auschwitz. These are the same types of men who raped wymyn in rape camps in Bosnia. These are the same types of men who thought up the unspeakable crime of FGM.

I see error on all sides. Attacking feminist websites--or anyone's website, for that matter, male or female--raises a lot of issues, none of them good. But making awful comments about her male child will give him a stronger, negative message. I shudder to think how he must feel knowing his own mother hates him.

Someone had told me about this in passing yesterday, I'm glad that you posted it up here. This lady seems to think she is pretty 100% right. I still think that the Harry Potter spoiler giveaways were mean, though this is pretty funny. You would probably say that I'm too encumbered by a sense of justice, which I suppose by design anon. doesn't have:)

By the way, I've got CSpan on right now, watching the Republican Straw Poll in Iowa, and the Ron Paul folks were totally trolling Laura Ingraham, who appears upset that she isn't Ann Coulter.